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	Fiji election of 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Fiji Sun, he was responding to claims made by Chaudhry at the FLP campaign launch in Ba Town on the 11th that the government itself was full of terrorists, but said that he would not be suing Chaudhry because he did not want to "waste time" on him.
		Fiji Television reported on 26 January 2006 that electoral registration of Indo-Fijians was down by more than twelve percent on 2001 figures, reflecting the high rate of emigration from that community.
		Fiji Village quoted the Prime Minister as saying that the real reason for the breakdown in his fortnightly meetings with Bainimarama was that the latter had expected him to implement orders from the Military and had shown no respect for the elected government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiji_election_of_2006 (4142 words)

	Elections in Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fiji has held nine general elections for the House of Representatives since becoming independent of the United Kingdom in 1970; there had been numerous elections under colonial rule, but only one with universal suffrage (in 1966).
		Note that there are no general elections for the Senate: The 32 Senators are nominated, not elected.
		Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Fiji (725 words)

	The Election Date Wrangle Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji coup 1987 ...
		It is the responsibility of the Supervisor of Elections to examine all the applications for registration, and place the qualifying voters on the relevant electoral rolls.
		The Supervisor, of course, may plead the fact that in Fiji, there has been massive internal and external movement of people, and that revision of a roll in such a circumstance would almost be an impossible task without a fresh registration process.
		The onus is now on the Supervisor of Elections to produce and publish the electoral rolls (and supplementary rolls) within 7 days after the date fixed for the close of the electoral roll.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2006/04/14/opinion.html (1907 words)

	SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS HIGHLIGHTS TRANSPARENCY, Elections 2006 - Fiji Islands
		Supervisor of Elections, Semesa Karavaki today said he will do everything possible to ensure that the operation and conduct of this year's general election will be transparent.
		Speaking at the 2006 Fiji Media and Elections Workshop held at the University of the South Pacific, Mr Karavaki said he is always an advocate for transparency and assured the media that the election process in Fiji would be like an open book.
		The Elections Office he said, is open and transparent to the extent that he has even given his mobile number and email address to the media for the sole purpose of being accessible and in trying to accommodate the media.
	www.elections.gov.fj /press/20060321.html (241 words)

	Supervisor of Elections - Opening address for the Training of Trainers - Fiji Government Online
		Article 60 (2) of the Constitution Amendment Act, 1997 states that the writs of the general elections is to be issued within 7 days from the proclamation of the dissolution of parliament.
		As you may know that the Supervisor of Elections is responsible for the administration and conduct of the parliamentary elections in Fiji.
		Many of the complaints made during the conduct of the parliamentary elections are due to lack of knowledge and confusion of the election officials.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/page_6473.shtml (935 words)

	2001 Fiji Elections Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 2001 Fiji Elections Project started operations on the 25 June 2001, with the aim of providing technical assistance to the supervisor of elections in the 25 August General Elections.
		This component of the project is designed to assist the Office of the Supervisor of Elections to coordinate all of the donor support being received, provide facilities for reporting on progress in meeting budget requirements as well as the implementation of the activities leading up to and for the elections.
		While opportunities for civic education prior to the election are limited, it is recognised that more broad-based civic education will still be required to ensure sustainability and strengthening of the understanding of the importance of democratic processes.
	www.undp.org.fj /elections/project (404 words)

	It will be free, fair and transparent - Election 2006 - Fiji Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		GENERAL elections are the central institution of democratic representative governments because, in a democracy, the authority of the government is derived solely from the consent of the governed.
		The Supervisor of Elections, however, under Article 79(2) of the Constitution is mandated to administer the registration of voters for election of members of the House of Representatives and conduct the election of members of the House of Representatives; and such other elections as the Parliament may prescribe.
		The Office of the Supervisor of Elections has administrative and finance, voter registration and information technology, training and research, voter education and awareness and elections management units which are responsible for their respective duties to ensure that efficient and effective preparations are done for the upcoming General Elections.
	www.fijitimes.com.fj /fijielections/free-fair-and-transparent.aspx (1013 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Fiji Candidate Says Elections Are Rigged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fiji's opposition leader alleged Tuesday that elections under way in his South Pacific nation were rigged with bogus ballots, but the country's elections supervisor disputed the charge and an observer called it highly unlikely.
		Fiji Labour Party Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who was deposed as prime minister in a coup in 2000 and defeated by the incumbent Laisenia Qarase in elections in 2001, told reporters that he had alerted police about his allegations.
		Elections Supervisor Semesa Karavaki, the nation's senior election official, said he told police who contacted his office that the election was not being rigged.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2006/may/08/050801243.html (243 words)

	Fijivillage.com - Fiji's Home on the World Wide Web - Elections 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Attempts by the Fiji Labour party to delay the election dates has proved futile after its case against the Supervisor of Elections, the Electrol Commission and the Attorney General was struck out by the Suva High Court this afternoon.
		He added that the 2006 general elections is in many ways different from the past elections as the local and the international scrutiny would be intensive and therefore, a demand for dedication and commitment from the election officers would be great.
		The Supervisor of Elections confirmed last week that they had shelved the Code of Conduct for political parties, in the lead up to the May Elections as there had been no favourable response from various stakeholders.
	www.fijivillage.com /elections_2006/news2.shtml (6255 words)

	Elections chief denies cash shortage Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fiji’s Supervisor of Elections Semesa Karavaki has blamed "miscommunication" between the elections officials as the cause for the "fund shortage scare" reported by the local media this week.
		Karavaki said the Elections Office received an initial $11million from the Government as part of the original $21million budget for the general elections.
		He said the staff in the Elections Office should have "stood their ground and not tried to impress the Prime Minister that they were ready for the early elections while they are actually not."
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2006/04/28/04Fijilive2804.html (409 words)

	Fiji Divided Along Race in May 2006 Elections - Worldpress.org
		The 2006 Fiji general election has further raised the utility of Alternative Vote (A.V.) as a means of promoting centrist policies and moderate political parties in deeply divided communities.
		Despite the supervisor of elections having informed the nation that the Elections Office was ready on Fiji One Television on the 6:00 p.m.
		Fiji's 25 open seats were hotly contested by both the S.D.L. and the F.L.P. had only one candidate, Arvind Deo Singh, contesting the Nadi Open seat, which was won by the N.F.P. in 2001.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=2476&dont=yes (2707 words)

	Fiji General Elections 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The August/September elections in Fiji were credible, but more work needs to be done to restore constitutional democracy in the country, according to a just-released United Nations report.
		The next step for Fiji will be the formation of a government in accordance with the nation's constitutional procedures and the results of the election.
		Toshio Kojima, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan, is scheduled to visit Fiji from August 24th to the 26th en route to Japan from the Republic of Nauru in order to observe the election process and meet with some of the 10 Japanese UNV volunteers.
	www.undp.org.fj /elections/Media (1748 words)

	FIJI ELECTIONS CHIEF HAS HAD ENOUGH - June 8, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		SUVA, Fiji (Fiji Times, June 8) — Fiji Supervisor of Elections Semesa Karavaki plans to resign because of a desire to move on to bigger challenges.
		I have achieved something and that was the elections and now there are no other challenges over here for me to stay on, he said.
		But as Supervisor of Elections, he was the only middle level State lawyer who managed between 200 to 2,000 people, and accounted for a FJ$30 million [US$17.3 million] budget, the bulk of which had to be spent in the space of a fortnight.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2006/June/06-08-15.htm (371 words)

	2001 General Election Watch Preliminary Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The purpose of the Election Watch was to identify the problems that emerged in connection with the recent election and to suggest solutions for the future.
		There are two general features of the recent election which clearly are cause for concern and which do not fit neatly under any of the four sub-themes for the workshop.
		There was enough suspicion about aspects of the election process and a sufficiently widespread perception that the elections were not adequately free and fair for this to be a cause of concern.
	www.ccf.org.fj /news/2001/november/election_watch_executive_summary.htm (1656 words)

	Law.com - Elections Supervisor Rapped for Hiring Lawyers With Bush Ties
		Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes is facing sharp criticism for her decision to hire a law firm with close ties to the Republican Party to represent the nonpartisan supervisor's office in the upcoming elections.
		Snipes, who was appointed by Bush last November to replace ousted Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant, is running for election as supervisor in the Democratic primary next Tuesday.
		Top Bush/Cheney election lawyer Thomas Spencer previously had said Sayfie would be one of the campaign's election lawyers, but Sayfie says that wasn't accurate.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180438131 (758 words)

	Foreign election monitors to prevent rigging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A statement from the NZ government stated that assistance from NZ and other countries could include an international observer team to ensure that the elections are free and fair.
		Many people in Fiji have also stated that the Qarase regime will resort to vote rigging to ensure that it wins the election.
		Other elections had their vote counting begin the same evening as the end of voting.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no767.htm (208 words)

	Labour questions whether elections will be free and fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fiji Labour Party anxious about registration errors and discrepancies evident in the provisional rolls, is asking whether the Supervisor of Elections office will be ready for the May 6 elections.
		I do not know whether the Elections office does have the time to rectify these errors and ensure that a proper and correct roll will be ready in time for the elections,” Mr.
		He said persons seeking help with respect to voting should be permitted to be assisted by a person of their choice, as some polling officers had, in the past, invalidated the votes of those who wished to vote differently from the political preference of the officials.
	www.flp.org.fj /n060303.htm (704 words)

	Fiji opposition seeks to stop election - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fiji's main opposition party is asking a court to postpone the volatile South Pacific nation's May elections, arguing that the voter registration has put ethnic Indians at a disadvantage, a lawyer said Wednesday.
		A court action filed Tuesday by the Fiji Labour Party of former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry accuses election authorities and the attorney general of failing to comply with electoral law, Labour Party lawyer Rajen Chaudhry said.
		The writ, which names the supervisor of elections, the Electoral Commission and the attorney general as defendants, asks that the May 6-13 election be deferred, according to government-owned Radio Fiji.
	english.pravda.ru /news/world/22-03-2006/77649-Fiji-0 (468 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FIJI: Opposition attacks elections chief over voting problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fiji's supervisor of elections is coming under increasing attack from the Opposition Coalition - in particular the Fiji Labour Party - for alleged bias in the conduct of the Fiji election which is now in its sixth day.
		DORNEY: The Supervisor of Elections, Semesa Karavaki, claims the reason the team left the station was to return completed ballot boxes from another polling station to headquarters.
		DORNEY: The supervisor of elections also rejects the suggestion I put to him that Labour Party officials claim the 2006 election was the worst in Fiji's history.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1637113.htm (929 words)

	Right to vote at elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		(b) he is prohibited from so voting by any law in force in Fiji because he holds or is acting in any office the functions of which involve any responsibility for, or in connection with, the conduct of that election or because he has been convicted of any offence connected with elections.
		voters for the election of members of the House of Representatives and the conduct of elections of such members and the Commission shall have such powers and other functions relating to such registration and such election, as may be prescribed.
		Provided that the question whether the Supervisor of Elections has acted in accordance with the directions of the Electoral Commission shall not be enquired into in any court of law.
	www.ccf.org.fj /publications/constitutions/1990/41i.shtml (533 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji in limbo as horse-trading begins - September 7, 2001
		Political analysts in Fiji suggested to CNN a SDL/MV coalition could well pressure the president to honor an earlier amnesty agreement for Speight and his fellow accused.
		Such an amnesty for coup activity is not unprecedented in Fiji with one having already been granted for former leader Sitiveni Rabuka after he overthrew the Fiji Government in 1987.
		Althought there was an unusually high invalid vote in these elections, Supervisor of Elections Walter Rigamoto said Thursday he was satisfied there had been no tampering.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/09/06/fiji.qarase (554 words)

	Supervisor of Elections relives experience with media - Fiji Government Online
		As the Supervisor of Elections for this year, Semesa Karavaki yesterday relived the experience he has had with the media at a workshop organized by the University of the South Pacific.
		Mr Karavaki said this was the first time he was conducting the general elections although he had already conducted two by-elections last year.
		The experiences from the two by-elections conducted in the past and through the process of preparing for the general elections this year he said, had given him some exposure and at the same time experience in dealing with the media.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/page_6415.shtml (327 words)

	Laws of Fiji - ITC Services Online
		(3) A dependent of a person absent from the Fiji Islands for reasons prescribed in subsection (1) who resided with the person during his or her absence is also to be taken as having been resident in the Fiji Islands for the period of that absence.
		If, after the issue of writs for a general election but before the first polling day in the election, the term of the House of Representatives is extended under section 188(4) of the Constitution, the election has failed and the returning officers must deal with the writs as required by section 62.
		A candidate in an election must not take part in the conduct of the poll in the election, other than to cast his or her own vote.
	www.itc.gov.fj /lawnet/fiji_act/cap4.html (16801 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FIJI: Election officials confident it can meet challenges of poll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With Fiji getting ready to go to the polls on Saturday week, a mad rush has ensued to ensure that ballot papers and other necessary documents are printed on time.
		Increasingly the Fiji media has been casting doubts on the ability of the elections office and the government printer to get the nation ready for voting scheduled to begin in over one thousand polling stations across the country.
		The government printer is given only the task to print all the bigger materials, the materials of the rates of voters, and also the ballot papers.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1625203.htm (494 words)

	Preamble
		An infant found abandoned in Fiji is deemed to have been born in Fiji, in the absence of proof to the contrary.
		The functions of the Electoral Commission and the Supervisor of Elections include the function of promoting public awareness of electoral and parliamentary matters with a view to encouraging the registration as voters of persons who have a right to be registered.
		The Supervisor of Elections has the right to attend meetings of the Electoral Commission and must comply with any directions that the Commission gives him or her concerning the performance of his or her functions.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/fiji.html (18441 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Fijians living in Iraq unable to vote in the Fiji General elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Fiji election office says Fijians working in Iraq will be unable to cast their votes in the general elections from there, because of the volatile situation.
		The Pacific Islands Report says the United Nations has advised two Fiji election officials who went to Iraq to conduct polling to leave because their safety was at risk.
		And four security guards from Fiji were also killed when their convoy was ambushed by insurgents in Kirkuk last month.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1633701.htm?Fiji (260 words)

	Wansolwara Online: News (USP)
		SUVA: Fiji's Elections Supervisor Walter Rigamoto today cleared up confusion during a radio talkback show over citizens' voting rights and how to cast their ballot.
		Another guest at the talkback show, Nguven Huu Dong, head of United Nations Observer Group said that if voters were deprived of their right to vote, the UN mandate did not have the right to comment on any national policies.
		"However, in the case of 34 candidates in the elections having been internationally fllisted, they still have the right to become candidates in the Fiji elections, " he said.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/news/wansolnews/wansol2308014.html (337 words)

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